{"id":188,"date":"2003-10-21T07:53:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T07:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:48:28","slug":"bottom-on-bioethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2003\/10\/bottom-on-bioethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom on Bioethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> The remarkable Jody Bottum ?Epoet, poetry editor for  <i> First Things <\/i> , and Books and Culture editor for  <i> The Weekly Standard <\/i>  ?Ehas made bioethics his bailiwick, having published several essays in  <i> The Weekly Standard  <\/i> in the past few years.  He writes the lead editorial on the subject in the current issue, and again shows how much is being without the scrutiny of the press or public.  It\u2019s an alarming trend and, as he said, we are the frogs in the pot of water who won\u2019t jump even though the temperature is approaching the boiling point.   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable Jody Bottum ?Epoet, poetry editor for First Things , and Books and Culture editor for The Weekly Standard ?Ehas made bioethics his bailiwick, having published several essays in The Weekly Standard in the past few years. 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